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Christopher Snowdon✓

@cjsnowdon

Economist and writer

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    Christopher Snowdon
    RT @spikedonline: 📺 🎧 LAST ORDERS 🎧 📺 The reparations grift @profdws joins @cjsnowdon and @Tom_Slater_ for Last Orders They discuss slavery reparations, the bursting of the AI bubble, and Rupert Lowe’s defence of gambling Watch here👇
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    RT @maxtempers: "Just before it was nationalised 94 per cent of its [c2c's] trains arrived within five minutes of the scheduled time. The latest available data from this August showed this had dropped to just under 71.5 per cent of trains."
    John Rentoul @JohnRentoul
    How predictable, and how predicted
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    Judges ‘setting rents’ as rush of tenants take landlords to court
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    RT @whippletom: Another COI. I once told the BMJ, it "would be easy to depict the SMC as a be-tentacled Voldemort of science, with journalists its credulous marionettes, but we're not that stupid and it's not that interesting." Chris van T quoted that in his UPF book, but cut before "but"
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    Tom Whipple @whippletom
    The SMC is a sort of uber science press office. In the pandemic it helped convene a lot of the big press conferences - the vaccine results, the modellers. Day to day, it will sometimes get together scientists for briefings, particularly on big papers
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    The SMC is a sort of uber science press office. In the pandemic it helped convene a lot of the big press conferences - the vaccine results, the modellers. Day to day, it will sometimes get together scientists for briefings, particularly on big papers
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    There's always a tweet!
    Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
    I watched Russell Brand @rustyrockets on the @jimmyfallon show the other night—what the hell do people see in Russell—a major loser!
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    "I don’t believe money alone explains Brand’s conspiratorial worldview. I suspect he was always a crank. He was simply given a free pass at one time because his ranting chimed with fashionable opinion."
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    The gambling levy recipients for 2026-28 have been announced, including £1.9m for the pressure group Gambling With Lives and £3m for its "educational" arm Chapter One.
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    RT @Jacob_Rees_Mogg: So to her great credit did my mother, fortunately she tells me she laughed out loud at my gaffe for which I have apologised.
    Paul Embery @PaulEmbery
    I had a little chuckle at the opening paragraph of Jacob Rees-Mogg's latest piece.
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    I had a little chuckle at the opening paragraph of Jacob Rees-Mogg's latest piece.
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    Tweet written with the assistance of AI.
    Robert Peston @Peston
    The Bank of England’s take on the contribution of AI to UK growth this year: “novel AI-related activity accounts for just under a fifth of GDP growth since the start of 2026. The contribution to growth from AI to date appears to reflect activity in the upstream development and implementation of AI technologies rather than broader gains from their adoption elsewhere in the economy. This is consistent with the impact on productivity having been relatively small so far”. In other words, there is a lot of spending on AI in the UK but no evidence so far that it is being used to make businesses significantly more efficient. There is obviously going to be a lag before we see productivity gains. It is super unclear how long that lag will be Bank of England Page 50 The contribution to growth from AI to date appears to reflect activity in the upstream development and implementation of AI technologies rather than broader gains from their adoption elsewhere in the economy. This is consistent with the impact on productivity having been relatively small so far Bank of England Page 50 The contribution to growth from AI to date appears to reflect activity in the upstream development and implementation of AI technologies rather than broader gains from their adoption elsewhere in the economy. This is consistent with the impact on productivity having been relatively small so far
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    The Bank of England’s take on the contribution of AI to UK growth this year: “novel AI-related activity accounts for just under a fifth of GDP growth since the start of 2026. The contribution to growth from AI to date appears to reflect activity in the upstream development and implementation of AI technologies rather than broader gains from their adoption elsewhere in the economy. This is consistent with the impact on productivity having been relatively small so far”. In other words, there is a lot of spending on AI in the UK but no evidence so far that it is being used to make businesses significantly more efficient. There is obviously going to be a lag before we see productivity gains. It is super unclear how long that lag will be Bank of England Page 50 The contribution to growth from AI to date appears to reflect activity in the upstream development and implementation of AI technologies rather than broader gains from their adoption elsewhere in the economy. This is consistent with the impact on productivity having been relatively small so far Bank of England Page 50 The contribution to growth from AI to date appears to reflect activity in the upstream development and implementation of AI technologies rather than broader gains from their adoption elsewhere in the economy. This is consistent with the impact on productivity having been relatively small so far
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    Artificial Intelligence might make us more productive eventually, but right now it is a waste of time. Link below.
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    A bit of empirical evidence I forgot to include in the piece.
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    Andrew Orlowski @AndrewOrlowski
    Oh
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    This current event in the news proves that my political tribe was right all along.
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    A nauseatingly self-satisfied and unbelievably disingenuous apologist for literal prohibition writes.
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    MAGA’s midterm defeat should be a warning to Britain’s right
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    Just found this in my bookmarks. 😃
    BBC Newsnight @BBCNewsnight
    "Keir Starmer, and the top team in the Labour Party, are here for good." Labour minister Dan Tomlinson says he is certain that Sir Keir Starmer will still be prime minister in a year's time. #Newsnight
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    "Keir Starmer, and the top team in the Labour Party, are here for good." Labour minister Dan Tomlinson says he is certain that Sir Keir Starmer will still be prime minister in a year's time. #Newsnight
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